there's lightning bolts in my chest
akron/family
from the album
angels of light & akron/family
LISTEN/future myth
from the album
akron/family
LISTEN/i'll be on the water
LISTEN/afford
goodness, christmas is fast approaching and just like every other year i have little clue as to what to get many of my loved ones. the best thing would be just to go out there, survey the stores, and do some shopping. but it's awful out there with the crowds and the cold. who wants to suffer that. i've already picked out a few things online, but i feel weird about doing my shopping virtually. it's like i'm giving into the technological age with all its convenience and ease and social avoidance. but online shopping can be pretty fun as well as dangerous (just a click of a button!) and i do like recieving packages, especially ones you have to sign for. if, by chance, you're bashing your head in over what to get moi *smile* then look no further than here and here *wink wink*. but really, a little love and a nice big hug is all i really need this holiday season.
now onto the music portion of our post. last saturday a nice group of us went to tonic for the akron/family record release show. these guys are current faves. they really possess this comfy, intimate, earthy vibe on record but live they were like this manic, uncontainable band that sought no boundaries and threw themselves all over the map. one minute leading a campfire singalong with just voice and banjo, the next cranking overdriven guitar towards squalling walls of feedback, then something more plaintive, emotionally soaring with shimmering atmospherics, back to some head smashing rock riffage that could only come out of youth spent with cheap beer, bad weed, and black sabbath, and most enjoyably a spare cover of neil young's 'for the turnstiles' played half naked in the middle of the floor and sung along with much of the crowd. definitely one of the most perplexing yet exhilirating shows in recent memory.
posted by troy @ 12:43 AM
3 Comments:
i remember asking for really outrageous things. stuff that cost, like, hundreds of dollars. stuff that mom and dad couldn't afford but pulled through to get anyways 'cause they were so good and i was such a spoiled child. the only thing that comes to mind was this pseudovideogame thing that played on a vhs tape. i think it was some sort of air combat simulation thing, and the player held a trigger device that was shaped like a plane shooting sensored targets on the screen. it was totally janky and only worked if you were, at most, 5 inches from the screen. kinda like laser tag (which is probably another thing we asked for).
My kids, well Lux, has an expensive list. His stuff is like $50 to $100. Elie hasn't asked for much, I feel bad, cause it is so much easier to buy for Lux, and I'm having a hard time buying for E.
T
might be of interest to ya: akron/family interview (& tiny sampler) at www.miporadio.com
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